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Which firm pays System 01 the most?

We ran System 01 through the current rules of 54 futures prop firm accounts. Every evaluation, rebill, reset and activation fee is taken out, and so is every payout cap, consistency rule and daily loss limit. What's left is cash in your pocket over a year.

Firms: Topstep, FundedNext, Apex, Tradeify, MyFundedFutures, Lucid, Take Profit Trader, Alpha Futures
Accounts: 54 plans, 25K to 150K
Slots: One account at a time. Blow it, buy the next.
Costs: $1.24 commission per MNQ round trip, 1 tick slippage per side
Prices: Each firm's promo price on Sep 26 2026

001 — The short answer

Skip the evaluation.

The top three are all instant-funding accounts. There's no test to pass: the first $3,000 you make becomes your first payout instead of a passed evaluation. Figures are for a moderate size, where two losses in a row can't end the account.

002 — Leaderboard

Every account, ranked.

The line shows the range of outcomes across 800 simulated years: the left end is a bad year (10th percentile), the right end a good one (90th), and the dot is the typical year.

Size

Account

All Topstep variants

#	Account	Type		Bad year · typical · good year

10th to 90th percentile year, dot at the median typical year loses money Typical year: median net cash after all fees, one account slot, 12 months Losing year: share of simulated years that end below $0

003 — What decides it

Rules matter more than account size.

The same trades produce very different years depending on four rules. None of them are on the checkout page in big print.

Consistency rules reward steady winners.Instant accounts cap your best day at 20% of the profit behind each payout. System 01's winners are close to the same size every day, so it clears that without trying.
Daily loss limits cost winners.A System 01 trade can sit in the red before it pays. A daily loss limit set tighter than the trade's own risk closes some of those trades at a loss. That is why FundedNext Rapid Daily collapses in the stress test.
Winning-day minimums set a size floor.Plans that only count days above $200 to $250 need roughly $700+ risk per trade before a normal winner qualifies. Below that, payouts never unlock.
Evaluations only win when you size to blow up.Eval plans top out when each trade risks close to the whole max loss and you rebuy after every loss, often 20+ evaluations a year. Take 4 points off the win rate and that approach loses most of its edge.

004 — Method

How the numbers were made.

Trades: 141 System 01 backtest trades on MNQ, one per trading day, Sep 2025 to Sep 2026. Each simulated year draws those trades at random, with replacement, onto the real calendar of trade dates, so no two years are the same.
Sizing: Risk per trade is set as a share of each account's max loss so small and large accounts compare fairly. Moderate risks half the max loss ($1,000 on a $2,000 drawdown). Best for each is whichever size, from 15% to 150% of the max loss, gave that account its highest typical year. Contracts are always capped at the firm's limit and scaling plan.
Stress test: Swaps about 5% of winning trades for real losing trades, taking the win rate from 84% to about 80%. Live results usually come in below a backtest, so this column is the one to weigh most.
Rules modelled: Evaluation targets, trailing and static drawdowns and when they lock, daily loss limits, consistency rules, minimum and winning days, contract limits and scaling, payout caps, buffers and safety nets, profit splits, accounts that close after a set number of payouts, monthly rebills, resets, activation fees and 30-day expiries.
Not modelled: Moves to live accounts, which firms decide case by case. Running several accounts at once. Payout processing fees. News-event and inactivity rules. Intraday drawdowns assume the trade's best price printed before its worst on losing trades, which is the harsher case.
Sources: Each firm's own help center and pricing page, read on Sep 26 2026. Some details could not be confirmed and were set to the stricter reading: MyFundedFutures reset prices, Lucid Direct's minimum days before a payout, and the cushion kept in FundedNext Rapid Pro accounts. Rules and promos change often. Check the firm's site before you buy.

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